subject: Safe And Healthy Pest Control In A Vegetable Garden [print this page] To figure out your best line of defense against bugs, you have to know which kinds are attacking your plants. The key to identifying the bugs is to watch your vegetable garden at different points in the day. Once you catch the bugs that are eating your plants, you can properly get rid of them. If you are not familiar with different types of bugs, just put one or two in a bag and find someone who can help you identify them. You could take the bag to an avid gardener, a gardening store, or maybe even a landscaper.
Unfortunately, it can sometimes be difficult to get rid of vegetable pests. You can not use any pesticide on your vegetable plants because you do not want to consume vegetables that have been treated with harsh chemicals. Thankfully, you got some great organic choices that will prevent pests from eating your vegetables.
Insecticidal soap is great for killing vegetable pests. Another safe insecticide is neem oil, which is made of vegetable oil. Neem oil is an organic product that repels bugs like aphids, beetles, caterpillars, and thrips. Using horticulture oil spray is a well known way to kill bug pests.
More tips for eradicating pests
Use netting, horticultural fleece and collars to keep vegetable fly, leek moth and cabbage fly away from your vegetable patch. Spraying with an infusion of horsetail (Equisetum arvense) helps to prevent fungal infections.
Just boil up two dessert spoons of the dried weed in two litres of water, leave to infuse for 15 minutes, cool, then strain. Every two or three weeks, on a sunny morning, spray the infusion over the plant and the soil.
If you grow vegetables in the same position year after year, certain pests and diseases will be quick to establish themselves, lying dormant in the soil between growing seasons. You can prevent this by rotating crops in the vegetable patch.
Choose pest-resistant cultivars
Good soil conditions and a liberal supply of nutrients, water, light and air are important for healthy plant growth. The choice of varieties also has a crucial influence on whether or not your vegetables will be attacked by pests.
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